“Fuck man, of course I would finish this week off with another shit work day.” I pined aloud grumpily to myself after closing the front door.

  Haaa, at least I have the weekend to look forward to before I have to head back Monday to resume sving away in the shop again.

  Putting work off my mind, I plopped my butt on my living room coud took a moment to rex for a sed.

  ...

  Alright, that's enough lounging time to get a workout in and then some dinner.

  Once I fihat thought, I proceeded downstairs to my basement, which I had verted into a home gym. ing off the steps, I went ahead and grabbed the curl bar that I had loaded up with two 45-pound ptes and two 35-pound ptes the previous day. Getting a good grasp of the bar, I strained my arm muscles, lifted it up and started repping it for sets.

  An hour and a half of w out ter.

  e on, almost there, just a few more reps to go.

  Aaand, I'm done.

  Right as I got that final rep, I released my hold on the pullup bar, nding bay mat-covered floor, where I immediately sat down to take a mueeded rest after my intense workout.

  That was a solid ass workout, but I'm pretty sure I felt something off at one point during it. However, I 't quite put my finger on what it was. Maybe I just o rex and chill out for a few days.

  *Growl*

  Or I might just be hungry.

  Well, whatever, I've rested enough and since my stomach is telli's time to eat, I guess I'll be whipping up a fat dio fuel my sore muscles. Though, before I head back upstairs, let me see how my muscles have been developing as of te.

  "Damn, that 70mg of baby dbol has been making a pretty substantial differen this cycle." I thought aloud, more than impressed with the very noticeable results I've mao obtain so far with the new pound I introduced to my sed ped cycle.

  And I've mao put on 12 pounds of retively lean muscle, nice.

  That's not bad for only being 4 weeks into my 12-week cycle. I might actually have a ce of peting in a bodybuilding shootentially rolling it into a career of some sort. I'd much rather spend my days lifting heavy weights pared to what I'm currently doing for work. But if I want to make that happen, I got at least two to three more years of hard work ahead of me, sadly.

  Directly after that, I logged some data into my notebook a my home gym behind and headed on back up the stairs to the kit to prepare dinner. On my way there, I made a brief pit stop at my bathroom to take a cool shower and remove the sweat I accumuted during my workout.

  Quickly sh off, I departed for my inal destination and when I arrived; I made a beeline for the fridge, ope up, and looked io see what I was going to make tonight.

  "Hmm, what to have..."

  Perusing through the tents of my fridge for a minute, I settled on what I was going to have rather fast and got to work.

  A bit more than fifteen mier, I had everything hot and ready. So I grabbed a pte from one of my upper ets and loaded it up before heading off to the living room to throw something up ov while I ate. Annihiting my meal in no time at all, I deposited my empty pte in the dishwasher and handled a few things around the house.

  Now that I've taken care of everything that o be taken care of for today, I rex for the rest of the night a some gaming done.

  As I had nothing else that o be done, I walked over to my desk, pressed the power button on the front of my pc's tower, and plopped down into my chair. Waiting several seds, all the monitors turned on, with only my main monitor dispying the login s. Thus, I logged in and began looking through my library of games. I browsed through it for a bit before my sight settled on a series of games that I hadn't visited in a long while.

  It's been a minute since I've st pyed one of the Wastender series of games. And with that new mod released retly, that bines all the games into one, I might as well py that tonight and take a vehrough the Wastend.

  That being as good a decision as any, I opened up my web browser and downloaded and installed what I needed and booted Wastender 3 up and got to roaming around the wastender world that was basically a mashup of modern day mixed with sci-fi.

  ...

  Many, many hours of gaming in, I killed off the st remaining gi monster I o exterminate for my side quest with a spray of hate from my unique minigun.

  Damn, that was a hell of a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be, I would’ve been doh this side quest much sooner and on my way if the game didn’t throw in a giant mutated gi monster into the group I o kill. I had to pull out all the stops to put that big bastard down.

  Directly after I shredded its head with a stream of bullets and its massive dead body colpsed onto the light colored Nevada sand, I leveled up to level 25 from the exp I gained from eliminating the poor creature and its brethren.

  And with its death, I finally hit the requirements for level 25.

  As I was going through the level up aing a perk and distributing skill points wherever I wahe sun began peeking through my bedroom window.

  Time sure does fly by when you're having fun. I guess I should things up here ao bed to get some shuteye, don't want to fuck up my sleep for this ing week.

  The sun currently rising in real life and my character reag level 25, I sprinted off in game to the nearby wastend town of Crystal Springs, the town I had received my side quest from.

  When I at long st reached the town, I first headed off to turn in my side quest at the town’s ter. Taking the shortcuts I knew of, I closed in oran no time at all and made my way inside of the town’s town hall and turned in my side quest at one of the several ters. ing myself anood k of exp as well as some det rewards in the way of several items and 10 silver s which alone had a value of 10,000 dolrs.

  Don’t know how or for what reason old world s became the wastend’s most universally accepted form of currency. I suppose it has something to do with them not deteriorating like most of the bills have.

  My quest reward in hand, I proceeded to the local trader to sell off all the excess gear I picked up along my advehat I no longer need anymore thanks to me now being fully decked out in a full suit of X-1 Tes Power Armor and armed with a unique minigun called Bloody Mary, both of which I looted from Fort Kern.

  All that crap sold off. I speedily headed to my pyer home in town and stashed all the useful loot I found on my ret quest before saving aing to my desktop.

  Time to get some sleep.

  As I got up from my chair, I felt a small sharp pain in my head that I initially ignored and as I started walking over to my bed; it grew and became increasingly worse at an insanely fast pace.

  Shit, this could be bad.

  Realizing the danger I was in, I started rag over to the nightstand beside my bed where my cell was to call 911. However, before I could get anywhere near it, my knees gave out and darkness quickly overtook my vision, and moments ter, I lost sciousness.

  ...

  After an ierminate amount of time, I ultimately regained sciousness. Though only somewhat since I wasirely there yet and everything was kind of fuzzy.

  With that being my state, I tinued sitting there waiting, hoping my head would clear up. As time tinued on, my head got clearer slowly but surely until I eventually regained full crity. Despite that, I now had a new problem. Everything within my vision remained enshrouded in darkness, and for some reason or another, I now felt as if I was floating.

  What in the hell happened?

  Unsure of what kind of situation I was in, I began thinking ba what I could remember. Processing through my ret memories, I remembered I had been overwhelmed by a sharp pain in my head before suddenly passing out.

  I doubt with the pain I experienced back there that I'm in a a, so I suppose I died. As for where I ended up, I have no clue since everything appears as nothing but a pitch-bck void and shares no resembo any heaven or hell I know about.

  Guess all the religions ba my old world were all just spouting a bunch of bullshit in the end, supposing this is where everyone ends up. However, seeing as I appear to be here by all on my own, maybe I diverged from the path I was supposed to have taken, only to end up here somehow.

  Whilst I tihinking and the dark void arouhat I appeared to be floating in. I leaned my head down to check if I could actually see my hands and to make sure that my vision was truly w or not. The very instant I did, I saw that my hands appeared ethereal and ghost-like, which firmed that my vision wasn't the issue at the very least.

  That pretty much firms that I'm dead... Eh, I had a good run. Just wish I could've seen my family o time before I departed for the afterlife, but it is what it is.

  Assured that I was most likely dead at this point, I tinued floating through the void with nothing to do. This went on fod knows how long and as I was beginning to lose my patieh the current situation, mostly because of boredom, a light colored holographic s suddenly appeared out of the blue within my vision, taking me by surprise.

  Quickly getting over my initial surprise, I regained my usual calm and directed the ey of my focus to the holographic s before me. The only thing of i in this god forsaken dark void, although not lightless void.

  [ Wastender ]

  The choice is yours.

  1. Cheyenne Mountain Bunker, Colorads, Colorado [ + ]

  2. Uy 1, Washington, D.C. [ + ]

  3. Raven Rock Bunker, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania [ + ]

  4. ??? [ + ]

  5. Random Start [ + ]

  6. Uy 7, Nevada [ + ]

  I'm in one of those reination or transmigration sarios, aren't I.

  I guessed before my mind ran wild with various thoughts and ideas regarding my current situation and the several options shown to me.

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